POS Patch Breaks Addons (again)

"steve.kaye" <nospam RemoveThis @giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote in
news:1168594069.782737.11270@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Try it! There is one really great feature you get by not having
> addons. Try turning all your addons off and logging in. The speed of
> loading is amazing. Try hearthing home or zoning into an instance. It
> is lightning. I only wish I could actually play like that because,
> like you say, addons are addicting and I'm addicted.

My brother has an external RAM disk (8 GB on an addon card) and plays from
there, and he reports that even with lots of addons, loading time is very
quick. The card has batteries so he's safe if the power drops out.

In article <50lgq5F1gq95oU1 DeleteThis @mid.individual.net>, news-
y DeleteThis @lazyeyedpsycho.cjb says...
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> "Rather Play Pinball" <123 DeleteThis @123.net> wrote in message
> news:QZeph.61973$wP1.53150@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net...
> >
> > Why does every stinkin' Blizzard WoW patch have to break addons? I
> > finally find a map location addon to work after the 2.0.1 patch, and now
> > this piece of Shi* patch breaks the x,y loc again. Why oh why oh why
> > Blizzard? Can't code decently anymore?
> >
> > /growl
> >
> > /cast=stun, /target=Bliz coders
>
> Blizzard don't care about add-ons. If they "break" them, then the add-on
> makers have to fix them.
>
> Fair enough, too. Blizzard shouldn't have to change anything in their code
> to accomodate third-party software.

No, not fair enough. Blizzard should try to avoid this - its not like
its impossible. One reason Halflife stuck around for 10 years was the
ability to "mod" it, and the "modding" ability of wow is a big part of
its success. So they should stop doing idioting things (like adding a
new parameter argument in the middle of an exsisting sequence)